How Fructose Makes Us Fat  (and Accelerates Aging)

How Fructose Makes Us Fat (and Accelerates Aging)

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

Fruit is part of a healthy diet, right?   Recently, research into metabolic products called Advanced Glycation End Products (AGE’s) casts that assumption into a...

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How To Shop For Groceries Like A Nutrition Expert

How To Shop For Groceries Like A Nutrition Expert

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

The articles on this site (like most other health/nutrition sites) spend a lot of time focusing on what NOT to eat, and for good reason...

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Is Your Shower Exposing You To Dangerous Toxins?

Is Your Shower Exposing You To Dangerous Toxins?

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

I've written previously about how important it is to be drinking high-quality water that is free of the chlorine, chloramine and fluoride - which takes effort, as...

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Oxalates, Phytates and Saponins: The Secret Anti-Nutrients (Antinutrients) In "Healthy" Foods

Oxalates, Phytates and Saponins: The Secret Anti-Nutrients (Antinutrients) In "Healthy" Foods

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

  It's happened many times that a certain food rose to popularity as a "health food" only to later fall from that status when we...

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5 Reasons High-Fat Diets Are More Than Just A Fad

5 Reasons High-Fat Diets Are More Than Just A Fad

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

We were all indoctrinated early.  Living anywhere in the civilized world (but especially in the grain-obsessed US) it was ingrained in us:  Carbs are a...

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Xenoestrogens: Plastic's Dirty Secret

Xenoestrogens: Plastic's Dirty Secret

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

Remember the BPA scare of a few years ago?   Nalgene was pressured into doing a recall of all of their bottles and the rest...

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5 *NEW* Ways Wheat Slows Our Brains And Makes Us Fat
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5 *NEW* Ways Wheat Slows Our Brains And Makes Us Fat

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

Listen - I know, a TON has been written about wheat and gluten over the last few years and how terrible they are.  Given this...

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An Owners Manual For Your 100 Trillion Gut Bacteria

An Owners Manual For Your 100 Trillion Gut Bacteria

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

The first thing to know about your gut bacteria is how little we (meaning "science") actually know about what's going on down there.  We know that...

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10 Biggest Problems With Vegan Diets
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10 Biggest Problems With Vegan Diets

Graham Ryan
By Graham Ryan

I founded a company that offers exclusively plant-based nutrition products.  I ate exclusively vegan for the better part of a decade.  Clearly, I'm a believer in...

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